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, \' ~ hnt ; still better where he could mingle the remembrances of sportive childhood with the poet's fantasies, as in de scribing the Midsummer Night's Dream ;' and best of all when he could vindicate his own hatred of the sickly cant of morality, and his sense of hearty and wise enjoyment, by precept and example such as The Twelfth Night' have him. In these instances, his own peculiar faculty, as a Commentator on the writings of others,—that of enriching his criticism by congenial associations, and, at the same time, infusing into it the spirit of his author, thus stealing and giving odour'--bad free scope, while the greater tra gedies remained beyond the reach of all earthly influence, too far withdrawn ' in the highest, heaven of invention,' to be affected by any atmosphere of sentiment he might inhale himself, or shed around others." We will not attempt to reconcile opinions so much opposed to each other, neither shall we throw our weight, little though it be, into either scale. The pub must decid e for itself. The following touching reflections on the death of Hazlitt, are extracted from Mr. Bulwer's Essay. We have seldom read a passage which more powerfully affected us " When Hazlitt died, he left no successor ; others may equal him, but none resemble. And I confess that few deaths of the great writers of my time ever affected me more painfully than his : For of most of those who, with vo inferior genius, have gone before him, it may be said that in their lives they tasted the sweets of their immor tality; they had their consolations of glory ; and if fame can atone for the shattered nerve, the jaded spirit, the wearied heart of those who scorn delight and love laborious days,' —verily, they had their reward. But Hazlitt went down to dust without having won the crown for which he had so bravely struggled ; the shouts of applauding thousands echoed not to the sick man's bed ; his reputation, great amongst limited circles, was still questionable to the world. Re who had done so much for the propagation of thought —f o r, the establishment of new sectaries and new schools — f rom whose wealth so 'many had filled their coffers—left no stir ott the surface from which he sank to the abyss— he who had vindicated so nobly the fame of others—what critic to whom the herd would listen had vindicated his Men with meagre talents and little souls could command the ear of thousands, but to the wisdom of the teacher it was deafened. Vague and unexamined prejudices, aided only by some trivial faults, or some haughty mannerism of his own, had steeled the public, who eagerly received the doctrines filched from him second-hand, to the wisdom and eloquence of the originator. A great man sinking amidst the twilight of his own renown, after a brilliant and un clouded race, if a solemn, is an inspiring and elating specta cle. But Nature has no sight more sad and cheerless than the sun of a genius which the clouds have so long and drearily overcast that there are few to mourn and miss the luminary when it sinks from the horizon." We may here observe that Mr. Bulwer had no personal knowledge of Hazlitt, and writes of him from the impression produced by his works ; whereas Mr. was familiarly acquainted with him Serjeant Talfourd for many years before his death. That this work will become popular, we entertain th e roost confident hope. The essays, of which it is principally composed, are now published for the first tion of the first, on " Civil time; and, with the excep and Criminal Legislation," will add to the fame of their author. The work is embellished with a hand some portrait of Hazlitt, which those who knew him well pronounce a good likeness. T. pE TER S B URGA CONSTANTINOPLE,and NAPOLI DI ROM A NIA, in 1833 and 1834. By AL Vor Tarz. In 2 Vols. London : Richter and Co. 1836. The author of this work_.a Prussian Counsellor of pains to whitewash the Legation—has spared no social, moral, religious, and political reputation of Russia. According to M. Von Tietz, Russia is the most civilized, the most powerful, and the most de lightful country on earth, St. Petersburgh is the most superb, the most ma gnificent, and the most fashionable city iv the w o rld ; and the Emperor Ni cholas is the most humane, the most benevolent, the molt parental, the most j ust , the most learned, and the most peace-loving monarch under " Heaven's wide canopy." Liberals an d liberalism are abused with a lavish profusion o f e pithets, intended to be anything but complinientaiy. M. Von Tietz's work is rather a panegyric on Russia, Russians, and Russian policy, than the jo ur nal of a mere traveller, intent upon recording facts, and noting vivid im pressions. The following a c count of the Sultan's Palace is however so striking, 0 vivid, so minute, and, as we know from other sour ces , so correct in all its details, that we are confident o ur readers will thank us for extracting it : " We have already spoken of the' High and Sublime Porte: It is the central point o f the en tire Osmanlee Go verninent--the focus from which the rays of the sparkling sun (the familiar epithet of the Sultan), are distributed over the Empire of the Moslems. The building of the Porte took p!ace in the y ear 1467, during the reign of Mahomet 11. resides the descripti on already given of the interior of the first L s o urt, we . hav e still to notice the little Porte on the right sisle t which leads to an open spaea within the enclosure of the Seraglio, and is- called Gul chane—being the spot where the i mper i a l pages practice their gymnastic exercises. Nothing now remains of the silver statue of Eudoxia, the cof:sort of the Emperor Ar cadius, which stood upon a porphyry c olumn in the first column of that monarch's palace. S ome years ago, when the .tomb . of the holy Nepomuk, sup por t e d by four large silver angels, was shown to rue in the church upon the Aradsclien at Prague, the cuslodicr, a j e sting fellow, in formed ine that formerly there were five such ange l s , b ut that one had been rem oved to the mint at Vien na. Per haps the silver Eudoxia has received a s i m ilar transmission to the mint at Constantinople. In noticing the second gate, and the interior of the second cour t, it may be as well to mention that, beneath the long a rched gate, there is a door leading to the apartments of one of the most im portant ministers of justice in the Seraglio, namely, the exectdioney—who, under this gateway, us ually performs Lis office. Until the period when the present Sultan commenced his reforms—owing to which the Ambassadors of Foreign powers have been treated with more considera tion—they were obliged, on going to an audience in the in terior of the Seraglio, not only to a light f rom their horses at Orta Kapu, which i s s till th e c ase, but t o wait for half an hour seated upon the wooden bench of th e g uards, close to the door of the executioner, until it Pleas e d the Sultan to admit them into his presence ; a formality which much annoyed many of these diplomatists, and is now removed, " Through the passage which leads to the saloon of the divan the reader has already followed me ; and on the right there is an avenue of trees leading to a l ong building, wherein no less than nine cooks are employed For the use of the Sultan. his ladies, and some of the super i or officials of the Seraglio. There are likewise, rooms and a dining. laboratory, where the sherbet is prepa red. In front of the kitchens is a place where the Janissaries, satisfied with the government, used to attack. the dishes of pilau (rice.) The more contented the they w er e, the more i" proof of being they devoured : and the fuller the stomach s of these sol diers were•crammed, the more smiling was th e coun tenance of the Sultan—as he th en felt convinced that hi s throne (lid not totter, and that his hea d was firmly fi xe d u pon his shoulders. " Along the central avenue is a road to the Gates of Bliss (liabiseadit) at which both black and white eu nuchs stand on guard. Through this blessed entr ance, the s ides -whereof are hung with golden swords, shields, an d brocade, the ambassadors are conducted to the ball of audience ; and many travellers have already described under what tiles ceremonies and excessive genuflexions thi s au dience takesplace. " The throne o f the S u ltan, glittering humilia- With jewels anti gold, does not stand opposite the entrance to t h e hall audience, but on one side o f th a t a partment, which is lighted only by a single window, admitting figs no more ..t than suf .cient to increase its brilliancy ; and softer th an the mur mur of the fountains which play before the Wi n d ow , are tlo words which are exchanged during the audi ence . This i s Oe. to advance. last point on this side, t o which Europeans a re per mitten The remainder of the S eragli o resem bles the ,stierior of Africa, in so far as its being, gener ally speaking, :snown only to the inhabitants. Nevertheless i n t e lli gence si-run the very interior of the Sult an ' s se at, has reached the esess of unbelievers, through the Wor k s of certain historians of the Eastern Empire, from wh i c h are learn, that in the third, or innermost court of the lieraglio, are the several apartments of the Padisehah and hi s c ourt, with the library, mosques, fountains, baths, and ki osks, and the Harem, properly so called ; and contiguous to this woman's prison, is another,ealled Schimsberlik, w' 1 er e in the princes of the blood are confined until they respecti s A y as cend to the Anne. " The most celebrated apartment of the Sultan, and to which a silver door leads, is the Cheraki sherire Ma s i f , ( the saloon of noble gasinent). In it are found the c ostly relics of the prophet's mantle, ensign, staff, sword, and bow, as well as shields and swords of his companions in arms. In reverence for the contents of this saloon, Sult an m os bomet the First embellished it at an expense of a hundred thousand ducats, and it consequently glitters with a per fect refulgence of gold and silver. The mantle, composed simply of light black woollen stuff, is somewhat less valuable than the silver chest wherein it is preserved, which - weighs no less than seventy-eight thousand drachms—we cannot long doubt which would be the curiosity most esteemed by a Christian, were the choice left to him. Some learned enquirers maintain, that these Mahomedan relics were ori ginally Christian, and that the mantle of the prophet had previously been the raiment of the Virgin Mary ; the flag, identically the same which Constantine received direct from heaven with these words upon it By this sign wilt thou conquer ;' whereas, the inscription now is Allah it Allah, u Mahomet, resul illah,' (God is God, and Mahomet his Prophet) ; whilst with the staff of Mahomet, Moses is af firmed to have already performed his miracles in the desert. I leave to the reader to credit as much of those things as he pleases. " I shall not speak in detail of the building Chasner, which lies also in this court, and contains in four vaults, the private treasures of the Sultan, for in these miserable times it would but excite envious feelings. "To the right and left of the Gates of Bliss,' are the dwellings of the two chiefs of black and white eunuchs, the first of whom is called the Aga of the House, the other the Aga of the Gate of Bliss, which name sounds somewhat ironically with reference to its bearer. With more truth, the harem itself is denominated, Dari seadet,' (the House of Delight). Of Christians, physicians alone have penetrated thus far, and satisfied have they re turned, only indeed with regard to their purses ; the Sultan on that•point not allowing himself to be called a niggard. This (Dari seadet), forms the winter dwelling of • the women, for in spring and autumn they occupy another building in the vicinity, and dose to the sea side, (Top Kapu, or Cannon-gate). The court gardkner, (an Aus trian), has procured the introduction of several Europeans into the Top Kapu, and thus afforded them an opportunity of inspecting the building—but this only during the winter or summer months, consequently, not at a time when the true flowers of the harem were blooming there in all their loveliness. " Close to this latter edifice, is the Eriwan-kiosk, the highest in Constantinople, which the traveller views with eager eyes, but at a respectful distance, whilst he himself is being scrutinised by the beautiful peepers of the women who arc inhabitants of it. It is a pity that no telescope has yet been invented, with which one could look from Pera through the thick blinds, into the sanctuary of this kiosk. Attached to this new portion of the Seraglio, and lying next the sea, are the small apartments, on the ground floor, of the Sultaness Walidi (Sultaness mother), built by Mahomet the First. In an upper story of the palace is the saloon of the throne, for the reception of company, with the suite of state apartments belonging to the Sultan, and the new marble kiosk. We will here give a full description of the saloon of visitors, which is di. vided in the middle by steps and a golden balustrade, reaching from the floor to the ceiling, and thus separating the hall into a superior and an inferior portion. In the lower one beautiful slaves go through their various dances, which the Sultan views from the upper part, where perhaps he occasionally conceals himself with some favourite be hind the curtains of the lattice. Besides this, the whole of the apartment is lined with mirrors which reflect in every direction the elegant forms and movements of the dancers. Perhaps these dances could not be adopted in the ballet of European theatres—although we have seen, at Paris and Berlin, in the Revolt of the Harem,' female dancers splashing in real water, and clothed in flesh-coloured elastic dresses, presenting the very semblance of unsophisticated nature. _ _ _ " The marble kiosk, resting upon twelve pillars of beau tiful green marble, exhibits itself in all its magnificence when viewed from the sea ; from its interior, which is decorated with the most costly furniture, it commands a grand view of that terrestrial paradise—the shores of the Bosphorus. " The internal arrangements of the harem comprise a saloon three hundred feet long and forty-five feet broad, longitudinally divided by variegated partitions in which the women keep the articles of their toilete. There are sofas placed between the windows, in each division of the saloon, on which the favourite slaves of the Sultan, who become so from their beauty alone, repose. The whole resembles a kind of female barrack, the inmates of which are three hundred and sixty-five lovely women ; and for the accommo dation of such a number the sofas are adapted. " The interior space of this part of the Seraglio, which is enclosed by buildings, is planted with cypresses, and tulip and hyacinth beds, whence it is distinguished into the Cy press, Tulip, and Hyacinth gardens. The second is orna mented with terraces, and has in its centre a basin of water, surrounded by marble balustrades. Here the feast of tulips is celebrated, which consists of the dances and gam bols of beautiful Odalik slaves, who as they glide through the mazes of flowers, must render the scene truly en chanting. The usual abode of the Sultan is contiguous to the garden of hyacinths, in the anterior apartment of which there is a collection of valuable articles of vertu. In theprin cipal state apartment, (the walls of which are covered with golden arras, studded with brilliants), three golden cages hang from the ceiling, and in which artificial singing-birds arc placed ; and in the centre is a very large tandour (stove) richly gilt and surrounded by costly divans. Over the door leading to the baths, is the following inscription, which af fords some testimony of the religious feeling of the Turks In God alone is my confidence ; He only preservoz me in my doings. " Amongst the numerous objects of attraction, there is another garden besides those already described, which des cends by terraces and steps to the sea. Here also are sparkling fountains and kiosks ; from one of the latter (a beautiful round building, decorated without and within in o th v e er most ah tastefulsea aand l manner) and.” an extensive view is enjoyed We may observe in conclusion, that ,these volumes are embellished with portraits of the Emperor Nicholas and the Sultan Molimoud. The author - or Op well-known Marsellaise, M. Roget de ]'lsle, died at Choisple-Roi, on the 26th inst., at the age of 76. Some days ago, as the attendants were shout to place in the coffin the body of the wife of a physician of the town of Chamand, in Centel, who was supposed to have died the day before, the assistants fancied that the body was still warm, and even that it moved. It was, in fact, ascertained that the vital spark was not extinct ; and the room was about to be cleared, when the sister and servant of the doctor were both suddenly struck dead by lightning, which injured several other persons present, and set fire to the upper part of the house. The flames were soon extinguished. The shock also destroyed the feeble hope that had been entertained of re storing the physician's wife, and on the following day three corpses were carried to the cemetery instead of one.—Galig.. nani's Messenger. Ji aDELLioN RUFFIANS.--Wn address ourselves to as patriotio at body of men as exist—the liberal attorneys— men who are for practical works of benefit, not for holiday speeches. You have the long vacation before you—muzzle the house-breakers—bring thenu into the King's Bench before the first day of next Term, and we shall have it then and there solemnly deeidod whether it be law, that any " Ruffian," with pistol and sledge, may break into people's houses, at night too, into the bed-chamheri of females even, and exhibit there his drunken brutality. That the King's Bench will dovide that he has not, we have no more doubt than we have of the existence of the sun's light. But, if necessary, the House of Lords shall settle the question—this we say solemnly and ad visedly. What is sauce for the goose shall be sauce for the gander; and if it be declared lawful to •break Padd3's door, it shall be equally lawful to smash John Bull's. filo, no more at present.—Dublin Evening Post. The Rev. J. Magee, Qon of the late Archbishop of Dublin, sent two of his friends (bailiffs) into the Sienna convent, in Drogheda, lately established for the education of young ladies, to seize some of the furniture for ininisten: money. A petition has bea sent to Mr. S. Crawford on the subject.—Freeman.—[The son of Archbishop Magee is a " Church Reformer" of the genuine old stock, and most laudably adopts the example of those men of pious memory, who rejected all the errors of the Popish Church, whilst they plundered all her property, even that portion which had been devoted to the sustenance of the poor.] COUNTY .I3UBLIN MEETING.—Several influen tial friends of reform have requested us to state their anxiety that the meeting to be held this day ( Monday) at Kilmainham, may be adjourned to a future one, the notice being too short. —Register. OLD SERVANTS.---M the late meeting of the Stinchar Society prizes were offered to servants who could exhibit testimonials of the longest periods of service in any one mas ter's employ. It was a condition attached, that the servant should not for a single term have left his place. To wet the advertisement, a female appeafed before the committee, bearing a certificate from Captain Kennedy of 3ennan, for thirty years continued service with himself, and forty yea rs with his father, grand-unele, and great-grandfather, at his place of Finnart. The certificate also bore that this aged fe male, who is now in he 87th year, wag Lova at Finnan, that she never, even for a moment, had changed her place of re sidence, and that she never, until the day of the show, had been farther from home thaw to Colmonell on the one side, and Stranraer on the other,,that her wither and her grand. father had both also beep kn the service of pitptEo k:nnnedy's family, and that her great giandfather ;Ind great-great-grand- Gahor had been both tenants of the fg.np of High No* of Glenap.:-.d)ttnifries courier. SUPPOSED Witgv!c.—Last week it was repoytea that the Ceres, of Memel, lad•:n with a valuable cargo of tim ber, had got on the sand-bank in the Solway which takes the name a Dumroof, and ran the greatest risk of sustaining severe damage from the state of the wind and tide, which on Thursday and .Friday hist were raging and roaring with a de gree of fury which is very unusual in the middle of summer. On enquiry, however, we were glad to learn that the Ceres, when supp_sid to be embayed, not by ice, but what is equally bad, masses of sand, was merely riding at anchor.—Dumfries Courier, THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY. JUNE 30, 1836. IRELAND. ' MEETING OF THE COUNTY OF DUBLIN.—A meeting of the county Dublin was held last Monday at Kihnain ham, to protest against the miscalled amendments of the Lords, and to demand a fair and final settlement of the tithe question. The meeting was held at the Court-house, and was very numerously attended. Henry Arabin, Esq.. was called to the Chair, and in the course of an impressive address said, " We are no longer safe in our houses—an authorised armed force may break them open in the dead of the night, when we have no means of ascertaining whether we are assailed by the ministers of justice, or by a band of armed banditti.—(Hear.) No doubt the robbers will avail themselves of the opportunity, and by calling themselves policemen obtain a facility of committing their robberies.— (Hear.) It is true the police have more splendid unifbrms —that their arms are more polished and bright—but how are those to be distinguished in the shades of the night ? A most merciful, mild, and liberal Administration has en deavoured to soften the rigours of such harsh anti oppres sive decrees, by only allowing writs of assistance to be exe cuted by day-light ; but I fear these Draconian laws mill not yield to such wise and considerate care and regard for the peace and well-being of society ; but that, urged on by the folly and intemperate zeal of a faction, who, it is said, pay for and abet stitch nocturnal incursions, they will conti nue in their desperate course until they plunge us in some dreadful calamity." Mr. Baggot followed. In proposin g the first resolution, this gentleman, who was loudly cheered throughout his ad dress, said—" His Majesty King William the Fourth, has been graciously pleased to send us his true representative, in a Viceroy who seems resolved to give to all Irishmen the full benefit of the long-forgotten articles of Limerick ; the Royal charter of King William the Third, truly immortal, though often misrepresented with pious and inglorious mum mery ! And it is a duty incumbent upon us to join with him in protecting the people, and to protest against the sys tem under which they are deliberately taken down, with deadly aim, like crows in a rookery, with a cross-bow. The Sampson of the Emerald Isle calls upon us all to use our most strenuous exertions. Diabolus Dan, he is called by the Tories ; and that same Dan draws greater Houses even of Tories, than Robert the Devil himself did. Mirabilia Dan, I would name him— The gods 1 0 chief, from whom all honours spring, The gods I have made thee now, by halves, a king Mirabilis Dan, the thundering Jupiter, from the Kerry mountains, is the head schoolmaster of the political aca demy of accomplishments. Mirabilis Dan has taught us a better lesson than even Lord Stanley himself ! the Lord of " thirnblerig " notoriety ; and now the sorry victim of the mud bath.--(Laughter.) Kildare-place "schooling" and the march of intellect have enlightened us too much to submit any longer, with superstitious veneration, to hypo crisy and fraud in Church and State. We shall not rest until Ireland shall have full, ample, and equal privileges." PERKECUTION OF PROTESTANTS.—WO take the sub joined passages from a letter addressed to the Freeman, com municating the ill treatment of two gentlemen, curates in the diocese of Limerick, for the offence of patronising the na ctional schools in their respective parishes. We find dial the Protestants of Rathronan, Newcastle, have addressed a memorial to the Bishop of Limerick in favour of the Rev. W. S. Ashe, "their curate for twenty years." The Catho lics would have joined in this memorial, but apprehended their doing so would weaken its effect with the good Bishop. " That the Protestant Bishops," says the writer, "exer cise summary punishment on such of their diocesan subjects as dare to dissent from their views, and are within the reach of their vengeance, daily experience demonstrates. To the recent instance of this kind, in the person of the Rev. Mr. Grattan, I shall furnish you with others which probably are unknown to you. Have those who keep watch and ward' on the towers of Protestantism in this country heard of the• cases of the Rev. Messrs. Ashe, curates, and brothers, the one of Ardagh and Rathronan, the other of Creagh, both in this county? The former has been lately driven a wan derer upon the world, from his curacy, with a wife and ten children, and without a prospect of another appointment. And what was his crime ? Why, Sir, that he had the har dihood to be patron of some national school' in the pa rishes where he officiated. I know his removal will be put upon other grounds. I boldly affirm his liberality was the real cause of his removal from the curacy which he filled during eighteen years. Was not a formal notice served upon his brother, the curate of Creagh, to withdraw forthwith his application for the establishment of a national school in Creagh, or else— ? Was not the resolution to that effect passed at a meeting of the clergymen held in Lime rick, the Lord Bishop in the chair, and the notice formally served upon Mr. Ashe, in ace.ordance,with the letter of that resolution ? Thrice happy for the cause of Protestantism if all who preach its doctrines were like unto him. Mr. Ashe is not one of those who wipe away the mock tear with a finger dripping with human gore, sited in the collec tion of the abominable impost.'" The following particulars relative to the distress in Donegal are found in the columns of a Contemporary : " We have before us a statement of the actual condition of one of the parishes in this neglected region, which are now enduring the heavy visitation of the ' hungry meagre fiend.' rhe classification is curious, and, notwithstanding the misery it paints, highly ludicrous in some of the circum stances which it brings into the foreground. " There is (says the writer) about 4,000 persons in this parish, and all Catholics, and as poor as I shall describe, having among them no more than 1 cart, no wheel-car, nor .any other vehicle, 1 plough, 2 stables, 6 cowbouses, 1 na tional school, no other school, 1 priest—no other resident gentleman ; 16 harrows, 8 saddles, 2 pillions, 11 bridles, 20 shovels, no bonnet, no clock, 3 watches, 8 brass candlesticks, no looking-glasses above 3d. in price, no boots or spurs, 32 rakes, 7 table forks, 93 chairs, 243 stools, 10 iron grapes, no fruit trees, no turnips, no carrots, no clover, or any other garden vegetable but potatoes and cabbage ; no swine, bogs, or pigs, 27 geese, 3 turkeys, 2 feather beds, 8 chaff beds, no more than ten square feet of glass windows in the whole, except the chapel, the school-house, the Priest's house, and the constabulary barracks. " None of either married or unmarried women can afford more than one shift, and the fewest number can afford any ; and more than lhalf of both men and women cannot afford shoes to their feet ; nor can many of them afford a second bed, but whole families of sons and daughters, of mature age, indisoriminately lying together with their parents, and all in the bare buff. " The generality of the peasantry are on the small allow ance of one meal a day, and many p•.milies one meal in two days, and sometimes one meal in three days ; their children crying and fainting with hunger, and their parents weeping, being full of grief, hunger, debility, and dejection, looking at their children likely to expire in the jaws nistarvittiuttt h This I s coarse painting, 411 d sulTiol44 grntes4tte tration ; but we doubt if an attempt to soften the touches would not detract from the natural pathos and the geniune tone of truth which pervades it. We are naturally prompted to ask, who are their land lords Y What Noble Lords or gentlemen draw Ocir venues, and are content to draw them, NM Creatures in such a degraded state of villainage ? The state of another parish, Lettermaoaward, Is thus described by a person of credit and ability, who lately visited it. " ittermacaward, I fear, could never have been otherwi? than the abode of poverty and wretched ness ; its coast being barren and exposed, and insulated from all markets by the want of even the most imperfect description fit , roads. And the inhabitants of Arranmore, who are numerous, appeared in an equally wretched condi. tion." He adds, hat all the accounts which had been re ceived would have been realized to their fullest extent h,- , 1 It not been for the assistance of GOvernment, so judi ciously applied by Mr. DOMbnliO, In keeping down the price of potatoes in these districts," This was written a month ago; but the landlords have done nothing since; and of course the sufferings of the poor deserted inhabitants must. have been greatly increased in the interim. Another gentleman who resides amon g st them, but possesses no inte rest besides that of human fellowship in their well-being, insists upon the completion of this road to Letterkenny, as the first step towards the civilization of the country ; and adds—" I have seen many parts of the world, but I never did behold a people in so degraded and wretched a state— half-starved, nearly naked, and as ignorant as savages. Na ture has done her part ; the place abounds in limestone, sea-manure, sand, shells, and many other auxiliaries most valuable in reclaiming bog land ; and I feel confident, if the present condition of this poor people could once be brought under the notice of any benevolent individual or persons possessing the power as well as the wish to serve their country, I might still live to see them an honour in stead of a reproach to human nature." 4 1 1 these thing tend inevitably to the enactment of an efficient poor-law, to MPH those who have no pity to learn justice, It is a lesson which cannot he taught them tan soon. In the mean time the Government is doing as much as it can, and more perhaps than in the circumstances it should do, towards alleviating the heavy pressure of this P. BnuEN, EsQ., NI.P.—In a letter which Mr. W. Malony has addressed to this gentleman in consequence of the chargo made against him in the course of the debate on Mr! Wili l 44§ inPtiq9 relit' re tg the PersPco99 9f freer holders in the county of Oartow, 4 - ealtuppy against a Catholic priest must, inded, be considered very valuable, when 4 ; • 4ePIIIPCI necessary to devote, in the leading Tory ,journal of th e em pir e , an ent i re co l umn t o th e a t tem pt a t fixing a charge upon so humble an individual as I am, which, however, I thank 'leaven, the' united efforts of all the Tories In the kingdom cannot, in this particular in stance, slimed efrectinx." Mr. Maloney then refutes the calumny in the most eonvineleg and triumphant nmn ner. Towards the close of the irrefragable evidence which he adduces, he observes on the Times—" It amuses me, Sir ; to .be described by a London papef as .a disturber of -the peace. This is going far beyond Irish Toryism, which has always conceded to us the character of peace-makers. I have in my possession letters of two ma gistrates—one of them of high Tory politics, commending. in fcLttering terms, my exertions in preserving peace and order ; and acknowledging the receipt of nearly 30 stand of arms, which 1 had succeeded in taking out of the hands of those whom local oppression . had banded together in illegal societies. If the Times he to!d these things, will he be the less ready, on that account, to call me a "sacerdotal miscreant, a hateful tyrant, a pestilential incendiary, a ran corous disturber of the peace ?" Most assuredly these men, had they the power, would not long confine themselves to the unsatisfactory recreation of calling names. " Those infernal passions," as Mr. O'Connell has well said it. which at present find vent only in the audacious atrocity of vituperation, would then, in the musket and bayonet, the pistol or stiletto, exhibit still more:congenial weapons." PROFESSORSHIP OF POLITICAL ECONOMY.—The chair of political economy in our University (founded by his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin) was filled on last Satur day by the election of Isaac Butt, Esq., to that important professorship.—Dublin Evoning Post. APPALLING DEATH.—Monday morning James Murphy, a labourer in the employ of Mr. Smith,.proprietor . of the lime works in Church -street, while employed about the mouth of the kiln, missed his footing, and was precipitated into the body of the burning pile, then at its highest height. Ropes were immediately lowered by his fellow-labourers to the assistance of the unfortunate sufferer, but they were almost instantly consumed by the glowing furnace. One piercing scream was all that reached them. After some time the remains were get out, and presented a spectacle of the most frightful descriptbn. They await a Coroner's inquest.—Register. GIIRMAN AND BRUSSELS PAPERS. BRUSSELS, JUNE 26.—The Count de Latour Maubourg, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of France at Brussels, having obtained from his Governmenst leave of absence, M. Bremer will act as Charge d'Affaire in his absence. Tbe Supreme Military Tribunal, by a decree of the 21st of this mouth, has confirmed the sentence of the Military Tribunal of Brabant, which acquitted Lieutenant Milling of the charge of murder committed in a duel. Out of 500 men of the Ist regiment of the line who have been quartered in the city for a few days, 50 were sent yesterday to the hospital on account of being afflicted with opthalinia. The .Journal des Flandres gives an account of the visit made to its office by some students of the Uni versity, which is-much less serious than that of our cor respondent. It says :—" The truth is, that seven or eight medical students came on Tuesday to require the insertion of a letter insulting to 'the Journal des Flandres, and our editor refusing, some impolite expressions escaped them, but finding that by this means they only made it still more irnpossible to insert their letter, they retired very quietly, and took it to the illessager." BRUSSELS, JUNE 27.—The Moniteztr contains the Re port made to the Senate on the 18th June, by M. de Haussy, in the name of the Committee appointed to exa mine the project of law relative to duelling. It fills eleven closely printed columns of that journal. A letter from Antwerp, of the 26th, states that, at half-past ten o'clock that mornin g , Captain Thoms on , o f the English brig Amelia, had cuthis . throat with a razor. The wound is so deep, that M. Sera, the surgeon who was called in, has but little hopes of saving him. He com mitted the rash act on board his ship, which was taking in ballast, to sail on Tuesday for Archangel, and thence re turn to Dundee, to which port she belongs. This morn ing he complained of being melancholy to a friend, who advised him to go on shore and amuse himself. He was alone in his cabin at the moment, and it was on the noise made by his falling that some persons went in. Ho has a wife and family. The motives for this rash deed are not known. He does not appear to regret what lie has done, since, at half-past eleven, after the wound had been dressed, he entreated the surgeon to bleed him, that he might tlio the sooner. BELGIAN FUNDS, BRUSSELS, JliNg Z 7, Actual Debt, •2t per Cent. „ Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. lot Loan of City, 1832.4 per Cent 99% Society of Commerce, 4>.; per Cent. Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 119% —Brussels Papers, June 28. BERLIN, JUNE 17.—The King will not go to Toplitz till the 15th of July, which is rather later than usual, so that he will probably not return to Berlin before his birthday, as was the case last year. The Grank Duke of Mecklen burg Strelitz, who arrived hero yesterday afternoon, went immediately to Schonhausen, to see his sister the Duchess of Cumberland, who is daily recovering. We hear now that the Empress of Prussia will not come to Germany till the at umn, and will probably pass the winter at Berlin. It is still believed that two of the Royal Princes will visit tile French Court. ROVEREDO, JUNE 20.—The Dukes of Orleans and Ne mours arrived here on the lettrfrom Botzen. The joy of tho people, who were assembled in great numbers, was damped by information that the Duke of Nemours was suffer ing with a severe inflammation in the throat, and had im mediately gone to bed. M. Aberle, an able surgeon, was sent to him by the Government, and found it neces sary to apply a great number of leeches. This not having produced the desired effect, it was deerned proper On the 19th in the morning to bleed him, and as the in flammation did not abate, again to apply a great number of leeches. Towards evening the Inflammation abated, so that Ilis Royal Highness passed the night pretty quietly. To-day he continues to grow better, and it is hoped that he will soon be quite recovered. The Duke of Orleans, who did not quit his brother's bedside on the 18th and 19th, is gone to-day to Vienna, to meet the King of the Two Ski lies and the Prince of Palermo, in whose company 11 Q will probably return to Roveredo. VIENNA, JUNE, 20.—Five per Conts„ 104 ; Four per Cents., 991; Three per Cents„ ; Bank Shares, 1,397. —Alt'eruchw gs-44 - 40. June 2.5. - ,kuvE, JUNE 27.—We have heard for utme limo past of splendid fetes which are to be aim here in the course of the summer. It is now ttilitllled that his Royal Highness the Prince of - Orange has invited a number of the English Nobility, who have received him with so much dis tinction, to come hither in the beginning of next month, when a series of entertainments will take place in honour of the British visitors, who will be brought to Rotterdam in two yachts. - By a Royal Resolution of the 24th May, Mg iiAtage of newspapers from the mother country; tci The Colonies, and vice versa, is reduced ono lAlf, AMSTERDAM, jp,ttiN qii,,..=WO have received the news or a tiM Mterfil4 14 Aasasalnate King Louis Phißippe, DUTCH FUNDS—AmsrEttniot, JIINR A. Mcmcy. Dills. Actual ()At, 214 per Celt. u.,.,.,.,,,,,,.,, ~,,,,,.., • Stir,se,/ Ditto, ditto 5 per co% „, A !lioi t :,vilititl, 41.1 1 ,, , ,, , pent , 91 fit{ tiltt%_ .Ag per cent SI Fl t , ominercial Company, 4 , 4 per cent.... Ditto, (1A32 and Ittl3) 5 per tout. .. ....... 1.999 isa!3, 4, rer cent. LxphaNte on London, One month l2 IN Two months ...Ditich Avers, June 29. .. HAMBURG 11ORSEN lIA LLE, JUNE 25. FOREIGN FUNDS. tills. Money. Austrian Metalliques, 5 per cent. Ditto ditto 4 per cent. Ditto ditto 3 per cent. Ditto Bank Shares ... —lna 1371 Russian 5 per cents. Metal. .......... „„,„„... 100% 10% Anglo- Russian Loan ... t•weat•gt••• ...... iiiN 106 Paper InAliptio9, 0 lor wilt. .. . . .._ Itit,ian I tisortptmn, 4-14 110 Anti Cu., al and 4th . 1 0i11 1 4 .3e....1 Mk Of;% Ditto, Certitica tes Portuguese Regency Bemis. 5 per cent 791,4 79 nut., 8 per cent. soi, 5M4 14111,11 23, ievr Cinits.. Flittu . pet Cents _ _ pohh U . :otitis, 3 per cents. A Iniirt.Danish lion, 3 per cents Not wegian Loan of 1E434, 4 per cents. ...... spanish, in piastres, 3 per Cents — Cot tes Loan, 5 per Cent r;teck I per cents. 11;33, uuaranteed by France 98th 98 POST OFFICE.—The Chancellor of the Exche quer gave notice last night, that on Thursday next he would bring in a Bill for the regulation of the Post Office. We are requested to contradict the paragraph, co pied from a country paper, which appeared in our columns, relative to the upsetting of the Times Bedford coach. A gentleman, who was a passenger by the coach on the day al. laded to, assures us there was no accident of the kind. The only thing that occurred was, one of the leaders bolted, but by the good management of the coachman was. prevented from doing any mischief. ATTACKS ON THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.— The United Service Journal for July has taken high ground, as. the representative of the British Military Servioe, in re plying to the recent authorised attacks of the Prussian Generals on the Duke of Wellington and the Army of England, upon pretexts arising out of the Duke's evidence before the Military CUlPUlission. The United Service Journal elaborately argues the whole question, and, while it temperately, but convin cingly refutes the imputatinua so boldly east upon our troops by their late allies, tealuusly vindicates the nation at large (r . : l !n, the tivanidasa reproaches of her jealou s f r i e nds. These articles will doubtless make a stir.not only at home but abroad. GOLD AND SILVER PLATE IN SCOTLAND.— The Chancellor of the Exchequer gave notice t 1141,, o Mon day next, he would bring in aßill t(k fil . tllcA 4tpdapi of gold and silver pl a t e i n Oepi l ail4, to er.ktdo fQr the assaying OCTP4 - - --• • Tlt Pc:qc 'Ol 4 114 S&A4osm ; on, THE CA oF NATcuE, WkLLIAM AND MARY He W ITT.— Tlals WOrk has culled up visions of primroses, quivering leaves, shining waters, and rose-embowered cottages—all that is as sociated with the youth and manhood of the year, with poetry, with nm,ie, and with affection. It is a perfevt/ delightful book. A fourth editi on ! We thonglt 11:nt re4c ;ed 4 . tenth; and shall think wqrse of the reading public tilt it has done so. It is Ane thgce wotiss that come upon us poor pent-up critics, with the fragrance' of new-mown hay, and the freshness and the feeling of the song of summer birds.—Athenceunt. SPORTIN G INTELLIGENCE. AQUATICS. THE LADE MATCH OF Ma. ROBlNSON.—Considerable anx iety was manifested yesterday throughout the public circles relative to the state of this gentleman. It had been rumoured that he was suffering most severely from hi, late exertion, and that the muscle of one of his arms was considerably distended. On inquiry of his trainer (to whose house he was conveyed after leaving his boat), we were informed that the statement as to any injury was totally groundless. [le had oily Leen in bed an hour when be expressed a strong des're to come down, but was prevented. At five, however, in the afternoon he dined with his friends, and expressed himself as well as ever be was in his life. At eight in the evening he walked home with a friend. ARNIER AND Moat,Ey. —This match was decided on Tues day morning.- !t created little or no sporting interest, and xva.. won by Archer, who bad three miles given hint in advanc:2 from London-bridge to Gravesend. MATCH AGAINST' Townsend has achieved another victory, that of walking one hundred miles in twenty-four hours. There was no specific sum named, nor are we of opinion that it was even for 51., still there is merit in the performance. The route taken was from tha Horse Guards, over Vauxhall-bridge, through Clap. ham, Tooting, and Mitcham, to the 10th mile-stone at Rose hill, Sutton. He started at seven o'clock on Monday night, supped at D'Almaine's, at Tooting, at half-past eight, returned from Sutton, had some brandy, and journeyed onwards. He took refreshment every ten miles, and at twenty-eight minutes past six, without any symptoms of distress, he completed the performance, taking 23 hours and 28 minutes. THE ATTEMPT ON THE OF THE FRENCH. (From Galignalli'"::•lessenger of Tuesday.) FURTHER PARTICUEAS.—We learn that after their re turn to Neuilly, on Sunday, the King, Queen, and Royal Family went to the parish church, and were present at a Te Deunt performed in thanksgiving for the preservation of his Majesty's life. The church, and all the avenues to it, were crowded to excess. Detachments from the Na tional Guards of Neuilly, Petaux, and Courbevoie attended spontaneously ; the passage from the door to the altar was farmed by a company of the grenadiers. The Dotnine salvu»t fac Regum was joined in by the whole congrega. tion with such fervour that the eyes of the whole Royal Family were bathed in tears, and even some of the oldest veteran officers were affected. On Sunday most of the Foreign Ambassador.; and Mi nisters at Paris sent off couriers to their respective Courts, with despatches relative to the attempt upon the King. The vows of the atrocious deed was transmitted to the de partments by telegraph. The Court of Peers is proceeding with the greatest activity in the work of examination which is allotted to it. The police are continuing their search at all the dealers in arms ; and a great number of prohibited arms have been already seized. At all times the fabrication of these arms, as well as the selling of them, have been prohibited by the law. Numerous arrests, the number of which amount to nearly eighty, were effected yesterday morning►, in consequence of an order issued by the Prefect of Police, on account of participation in unauthorised societies. The greater part of the persons thus arrested are young men, belonging mostly to the working classes, and inhabiting chiefly the sth and 12th arrondissements. The President of the Council gives himself up wholly to the affair of Alibeaud. Confidential agents have boon sent off to Lyons and Nismes to obtain information as to uis connections in those towns. The iudieial office:i.s of the Court of Peers and the Grand Refereadary in constant communication with M. Thiers, Yesterday the culprit nw )- erwent a new examination by Boron Pasquier ; and was said that, the examining Magistrates, fiu( l 2: rig themselves sufficiently informed upon the matter, the resolutions of the Preparatory Committee will be transmitted on Thursday to the Noble Court ; which ho lug assembled as a Chamber of Accusation, and n OP supposition of no supplementary inquiry being ne cessary, would then decide that Alibeaud should be put upon his trial, and would fix Monday next for the trial, in order that, in the interval, the prisoner's Counsel might have time to confer with him for preparing the defence. When Alibeaud was taken into his cell at the Concier gerie, he amused himself with reading the incriptions Fieschi had scratched upon the walls during his detention there, and which have bee❑ suffered to remain on account of their moral tendency. Alibeaud soon began to smile, and said—" How silly this man made himself! Yet he and I shall go clown to posterity. You will find, however, that I shall conduct myself very differently from him ; for he was a groat babbler, and fancied he produced a great effect by his oily words and affectations," When conversing with his townsfolks, M. and Madame Mercier, though he declared that he had no accomplices, and that he dared not confide his project to any one on account of the ego tism of the age ; ho asserted that there were at least 20,000 persons in Fo•ance who were as determined_ as himself, - Ihe strait waistcoat put upon the assassin on his arrival at the Conciergerie has been taken off since be has been placed under the surveillance of eight persons, four of whom are in turns constantly with him by night and by day. These keepers have no communications with any persons without, nor even with any in the prison. Alibeaud received a certain degree of education. Let ters written by him have been found, of which the ortho graphy is correct. His language, without being refined, is good and fluent. It is said that when he was a soldier he received a sabre wound in the head, which, together with the dissipated life he had led, and the distress to which he has been reduced, may have caused that state of excitement which has driven him to commit the desperate act of Sa turday, He was particularly fond of wine and good living. He lids been turned away from several places in which he was employed on account of his bad conduct. At the hotel where Alibeaud lived, he never spoke to any One, not even to the proprietor, who lived on the rez th'ehaussee. Whenever he went out he carried a pistol cane ; but by a singular distrust, and through fear, no doubt, of some domestic in the hotel examining it, he. al ways bid it carefully behind a chest of drawers. One day the servant, while sweeping the room hit it, and having caused it to fall, took it up and examined it in the presence of Alibeaud, who appeared mueb annoyed at its having been found in his passession. "Itis a forbidden cane," he observed to Alibeaud . - ; " if this was seen in your hands, it would be taken tom you." " Oh," replied Alibeaud, tak ing it back again, " it is good for nothing except to kill bira:s with," On Saturday he went out at twelve o'clock, and returned about two o'clock ; he then went out again almant an hour afterwards, for the last time. It was just a month since he. had been in the hotel, and it is needless to say that he had not paid his rent. Seals were put on the door of his room. The master of the hotel, with his wife and servant, were interrogated yesterday, but Alibeaud has not yet been confronted with them. Frey, a person with whom Alibe a ud l o d ge d a t one p er i o d in the Rue Bourbon Villeneuve, has been arrested in Bor deaux. The police have found, at his lodgings in the Rue Bourbon Villeneuve, letters that bad been sent to him by Alibeaud. It has been remarked that there is a singular coincidence between the attempt made by Alibeaud and the conspiracy of Neuilly last year. On that occasion, as on Saturday, the King was to have been attacked with fire-arms in his car riage, on the 25th June, 1835, between five and six o'clock, as he was going from Paris to Neuilly. TUESDA Y, ONE O'CLOCK.—LoyaI addresses, expressive of indignation at. the late attempt, and of attachment to his Majesty's person, were delivered to the King yesterday by Marshal Lobau, in the name of the National Guards ; Count Portalis, in that of the Court of Cessation ; and M. Pelet de la Lozere, in that of the Royal Council of Public Instruction. His Majesty's answers, like those given to the two Chambers, were replete with profound sentiment, and the expression of anxiety for the prosperity of the country. The Chamber of Deputies has not been summoned in consequence of the attempt of Sat ur d a y, from which it is evident that there is no intention of bringing forward any new repressive laws. Several of the Ministers are even said to have told their friends that the existing laws are sufficient, and no extrlordinsry measure is required. It is believed that the Parliamentary session will not be closed till after the trial of Alibeand, (From the Impartial.) The new regicide bas hitherto made Few avowals tending to disclose his former life. His attitude continues the same ; he atre:cts that fictitious dignity, that false parade, which denotes a man prepared to enact a dramatic part. The Earl of Eldon has greatly improved in health, since the recent favourable change of weather. TALES OF TILE WOODS AND EIELDs.—A Se cond Series of the " Two Old Men's Tales."—The forte of this author is condensed pathos. lie (for we do not think the work is written by a lady) tutees with power the strong emo tions of the heart, and slows with singular skill the play of those deep feelitws, which agitate impassioned natures. It is the terneerAr A tkolt of the writer that makes his stories delight ful] cAmrtag over them a fervid atmosphere that renders them at once poetical and tr ue . Th e strugg l e b etween love an d duty in Narginie is well drawn, and takes, from the high sense of moral virtue it discovers, a tone of great dignity and power. THE LATE MAYOR ELECT.---The Tories must be at a loss for a grievance whoa this State r ques tion is stirred. The party here h a d sutler tttkett wit is their ant,er, and thought it better to the katAtter to drop. Mr. Sergeant Jackson, however, dilibred in opinion with them. Encouraged by his successful effort to redeem Bandon from the condemned list of Corporations to bo abolished, Mr. Deane's sufferings in the cause are to form the subject of his neat achievement. Ile would do better, however, to leave the respectable gentleman, the objection to him being now removed, to take his chance quietly on the first Monday in July, of being the last lottery drawn Chief Magistrate.—Southern Reporter. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We yesterday offered a few observations on the Legislative anarchy which has been produced by the vote of the Lords of Monday last. As the English are a practical people, it is impossible that they can long tolerate this state of anarchy. We assume that neither Lords nor Commons can permanently place themselves in opposition . to the people. When th Commons. allow themselves to be carried away ny faction, a corrective is supplied by a dissolotien ; and when an election has afforded th e requ i s it e test of the will of the nation, a collision with th e L or d s proves that they are in opposition to toe peoide,andi‘dlienrinsa,,cnrd: the remedy which the Crown, exe rc i s i ng i ts trust I.lr the benefit of the people, under responsible can and ought to apply. The English are not a apect.l lativc but a -- practical people. They see that since the passing of the Reform Bill, the Lords and the Com mons pull in opposite directions ; but they are not yet agreed as to the mode in which the : Legislativ e anar chy shall ho corrected. The time, however, n ow presses for inculcating on the people the portance of supporting the Reforms in. whom they have confidence in the course they may • chalk out. We observe in The Landau and West minster Rev . :ew for July, of which we have just re cei7ea a copy, an article on Tories, Wings, and Ra dicals, in which there are some pointed remarks on •the state of the mind of the people at the passing of the Reform Bill, and the subsequent conduct of par ties, and an appeal to the 'Radicals in Parliament. This article is deperving of attention, as it seems to indicate the near approach of a period when the Re formers can only be held together by proccedim;s of a decided character:— " The predominant section of the party in power (says the writer), holding the fate of the Ministry in their hands, and being the body to which, apparently, the country mu s t look for the Men who are h e r ea ft er t o - direct its councils— why are the Parliamentary Radical making no exertions to prove themselves worthy of this exalted destiny? Instead. of taking the lead, as belongs in all combinations to those who hold the most decided opinions, why have they sunk into a mere section of the supporters of the Whig Mini stry ? Why is all their Parliamentary conduct passive, acrd not active ? Except an occasional motion, to which the re, putation of some individual among them is pledged, . an d which he could not, without disgrace, abandon, wl4l,- do they originate nothing, but content themselves w ; .th sup porting what the Ministers originate ? Why do. they not bring forward a succession of matured and well-digested re forms, which, being sent to the House of. Lords, miglt compel that body to choose between the ttthintion of them and its own ruin ? Why do they let slap e%ery opportunity not only of acting, but even fo r spedkir,g, like men in ear nest about their opinions." In a former article, written by a great man now uni more, regret. was eximesse•.l that there should be so few Luthers =must t l .re Reformers, and the present Reviewer quotas vv - Lift approbation, as hitting the nail n:2 the lewd;,the following character give:a of the Movt" ll P7:t party by Sir John Walsh, tliat " it was dek:ient in the enthusiasm, in the impetuosity, which could have developed its full power, in vigour and earnestness of purpose." copy the following remarks On the state of mir 4 l of the people, and on the distinction between the Stanley and Melbourne Cabinets : " Those onlywho have qualified themselves by a greater degree of study and experience than has fallen to the lot of most arc entitled to have a confident opinion on the extent to which it may _be necessary to carry a political change, previously to trial, The people, however, not having made up their minds, when th e R e f orm Bill passe d , whethr any further constitutional change would be re quired or not, they naturally—where they were free to choose—cbcise mostly, as their first representatives, men whose minds were no more made up than theirvere . . It was by practising upon the weakness of such men, that the Stanley Cabinet (for the conduct of that Ministry took its character from its worst member) was enabled for a session and a half to carry on the system which one of its members has since avowed that it deliberately pur sued—that of proposing nothing in the reformed House of Commons but what was agreeable to the Tories. This system could not last. The people became alienated—not because the Whigs did not propose further organic changes, for the experiment had only just commenced which was to convince the people that such were neces sary—hut because their practical reforms, their course of improvement in details,' were shaperl to the taste of those who were of Sir John Walsh's opinion, that no abuses existed previously to the Reform Bill. The Whigs be came unpopular, not because they wished the Reform Bill to be final measure,' but because, rather than risk a eohisiOn,' which might prevent that wish from being rea lized, they were willing to abandon all the ends to which the Reform Bill was intended as a means. * * * The Melbourne Ministry are the representatives of ano ther system of government, one remove only from the former ; and they, too, must soon make their election to abandon it or to fall. The Grey Cabinet, as a body Cthough against the wishes of some of its individual Members), acted on the principle not only of resist ing any further Parliamentary Reform, but of not ori ginating or supporting Reform of any kind, which, by pro ducing a collision,' might possibly lead to th a t resu l t . The Melbourne Ministry, as a body (also it is believed against the wishes of several of its members), has r.ban doned only one-half of this policy, retaining the other. It resists with as much obstinacy as its predecessors, not only any proposition for a further increase of the popular con trol over the Legislature, but the bare idea that such can Ile rendered necessary by any conceivable prolongation of the struggle against g oodcr government. The differ ence be tween the policy of the Grey and that of the Melbourne Ministry is, that the latter, though they deprecate organic changes,' do not, as the former did, make the prevention of it the grand business of their government. To save the Lords from themselves is still their object, but tio longer their sole object. They do not shield the Lords from the odium of rejecting good measures, by taking that odium upon themselves ; they propose what they think good, and what is acceptable to the House of Commons, and let the Peers reject it at their peril." And this policy has exasperated the Peers greatly. The majority against Ministers has continued to in crease ever since they acted on it. They instinctively perceive that a continuance of this policy must either force them to second the wishes of the nation, or it will force the people to insist on extending also to them the principle of reform. The spirit of these ex tracts sufficiently shows that the position of Ministers is full of embarrassment. But they will not, we trust, run against the rock on which Earl Grey's Ministry split. By keeping constantly in mind that their only sure support and stay is the attachment of the people, they will rally round them Reformers of all classes. The most disastrous of all policies is to appear more anxious to gain the good word of the Tories than to be rooted in the affections of the people. By acting with firmn'ess and vigour, the Lords must be compelled to give way.—Morning Chronicle. It has been remarked of ill-favoured or unsightly individuals, that they are oftentimes more than any others plagued with personal vanity ; and that this description of weakness seems for the most part to take its rjse from a too partial view of the defects of their e7..terior, indeed of those very distortions and de forrUties which arc peculiarly disgusting in the eyes oi others. To what preposterous lengths a similar error can be carried, though not bearing immediately on shape, feature or • complexion, we were scarcely sensible until within this day or two, after reading the panegyrics of the Ministerial newspapers upon the " able' speech, the " excellent" speech, the' ar gumentative" speech, delivered by Viscount Melbourne cn Monday last, and more particularly with reference to those passages of it wherein the Prime Minis . - ter drew upon English history for an illustration of his sentiments on the Irish bill. A richer fund or histo rical ignorance was never possessed by mortal than. that of which the treasures have been thus exposed by the head of the Whig-Radical Administration, His Lordship, with a view to disparage th'e impor tance of those great Conservative interests by which the House of Lords is now supported in its manly and inflexible defence of the Constitution, had the har dihood to compare the wretched measures contended. for by the rump of the modern Whigs, with the r e . formation, the revolution, and the Hanoverian %we cession, in respect of their hold over the spirit the () fa country,li those and multifarious their fitii fitness means overwhelm ans ech, the gctn a sr. t tcj i ts n lil a st : e o : t i c : majority tota l o f the Conservative power. He seernea t b o ) fi:: a t i h lc e t foundations of Conservatism upon of the gentry," the great majority " of the - cler is • the voice "of the Universities. Ana then Lord ship reminded his hearers that the reformation, the rem !talon, and the House of Hanover, had made the; wa y to success and to stability in spite of all suc h opp But what is the hist o ry o f the reformation°Wner forced upon the Crown, th e no bl es , an d t h e gent cy , by 1 I 1. (V,; i 1 .